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Turner Essay

Turner Essay

Q Does the polysemic/mutli-vocal quality of Ndembu symbols contribute to ritual efficacy in this cultural context? How might this work? How do the Ndembu tie their ecological understandings to their ritual practice. What is Turner's view on this?

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In the recent past years, most of the anthropological literature in the have shed light on the features and significance of the ritual symbolism. In this context, Victor Turner stated that the single symbol might represent for several things, which are, 1. Objects 2. Activities and 3. Relationships According to the ritual efficacy there are certain rituals in which one-to one relationship is not found between the symbols and the referent. On the contrary, a certain cases of different cultures the symbols and referent have one-to many relationships.